Los Angeles daily herald., 1887-03-12
M DICA INH A L. A Il I o N
Combined wit Constitutional Remedies.

OUR TREATMENT OF THE DISEASES
" of the respiratory passages consists in
the employment OF Menical Inhalation Tor
its direct effects on the diseased organs;
and, at the same time, adopting such hy-
piepic measures aud administering such
medicines by the stomach as will most ef-
fectually purify the blood, give tone To
the nervous system, and bald up and
strengthen the general constitution. In
other words. we employ combined local
What is MEDICAL Inhalation? Before
stating briefly what Medical Inhalation
is, we propose, in as few words as possible,
to state clearly what 1t is not.
Medical Inhalation Is not cure-all a
nostrum, or panacea. 1t is not specific
rem edy for any disease. 1t is not quack
m edicine, or advertised to cure any or all
the ills that flesh is heir to, an intended to
fill the pockets of its proprietors 1t is mo-.
talisman, whose possession lnsures health
sense or Judgment. Medicsl inhalation Is
none of these things.
Medical Iuhalation is simply aud solely a
method of taking medicines by inhalipg or
breathing them into the lungs instead OF
swallowing them into the stomach. By In
h.lation, the proper medicines are applied
directly to the seat OF the disease, in the
nose, throat or lungs; and 1t is clear TO
every reasoning person how peculiarly ap..
plica BILE Inhaiation is iii the disorders of
burned the surface of the hody, or wounded
any limb or membe you do not swallow
the remedy intended to heal the dfsor-
ganized tissue. On the contrary, you apply
il directly to the seat of the wound or i'll
Jury. Why, then. when suffering from ca
tarih h OF the nasal pas sages or throat or af-
fiicted wi h ulceratio of the lungs, should
you rely on medicines taken Into the
stomach?
Medical Inhalation not only applies the
Dropar baolino ron, o6ipS tn the seat of The
disease, but it applies the remedy in the
gaseous or vaporous form, in which form,
as Is well known, medicines act most power
fully. How much greater, for example, is
inhaled or breathed, than many times the
quautity when swallowed into the stomach:
The same is true of chlorine, OF iodine. and
of many other substances. By inhalation
the medicine is not poured into the stomach
and thence sent wandering through the
system in search of malady which may be
mainly or entirely a local one; but BY this
| method the proper remedy Is applied dl-
rectly to the diseased organ. Who, after
studying the anotomy OF the lungs: can
the air-tubes and air-cells. the direct appii-
cation of the healing medicine by 1nhala.
ton to the discs sed parts, is the correct and
rational method of treatment? Who. on
the other hand, can be so irrational as to
believe that the proper and direct way to
reach the diseased surfaces of the sir
passages in this case, is by the way OF the
stomach? Physiology. teaches us that the
membrane. or skin, lining the air-passages
of the nose, throat and lungs, is only a
slightly modified form of the same structure
as that which covers the external surface
of the body. Why, then, should local treat
ment he proper and necessary for intlam-
nations, concessions and ulcerations OF the
one and not be equally SO in the case OF the
other?
Our experience and success in treating
diseases of the nose. throat and lungs, de
monstrates, beyond all question, that the
true scientific treatment of these diseases IL
that treatment which combines the loca
effects of medical iphalation with the cou
stitutionsl effects of systematic remedies
given in the usual way by the stomach
| Que or both methods must be adopted al
| the circumstances demand, and such rene
and judgment of the physician have proved
| to be proper in each particular case.
Medical Advocates of In ha latiOn.
PHYSICIANS who were educated twenty
years ago or more, and who have not KEEP
| up with the times in the advance in medi
| cal science, have very little 1oea OF the grea
| importance all leading writer's now give tt
Medical Inhalation in the treatment OF pul
monary diseases. To such an extent is this
true that no patient should lntrust his case
| to auy physician who is not well prepared
and thoroughly equipped with everything
necessary for the administering. OF the
proper remedies by the method OF 1nhaia
ton.
The numerous cures effected By inhala.
lation in cases seemingly past all help, and
the uniform success attending It's uss IN
diseases of the respiratory organs, rende
at once apply himself to gain a practical
knowledge of the Inhalation. or, If that is
not possible, he is at least bound to decline
to treat such cases.
Among the most eminent physicians OF
the age who are fully awakened to the value
of Medical Inhalation in these diseases are
the following:
DR.. La Roche, OF the Paris Academy OF
Medicine; Dr. Frederick Langhsus, OF Bet
| lin; Drs. Klebs and Tommasi-Crudeli; Sir
Archibald Dickson, of Edinburgh, Scotland
| DR.. Eichler, DR.. Cameron DR.. Gurdon Buck,
Prot. Albert Mhert, the celebrated DR..
Hughlings Jackson the venerable Dr.. Rob
Wells, DR.. Hilton Flagge, DR.. G. P. Wood,
Drs: Fritsch and Hitsig. Dr. Fothergill, Dr..
Richard Thompson, DR.. r. Carpenter,
Drs. Anstie, Ball, Fuller. Lancereaux,
Krauss, Huguenie, Heller, Orth, Corrisan,
| Fenwick, and many others.
| With scarcely a single exception every
medical authority of eminence recognizes
the wonderful potency OF this new method,
and the coming generation OF physicians
are certain to be thoroughly educated
|
| clans here and there who have made "Dis-
eases of Respiration" a life study that are
fitted in any way to employ the wonderful
| resources of Medical Inhalation in the cure
of these diseases.
The Durability of Consumption.
For FIVE years the celebrated DIR. l H
Bennett waa pathologist to the .yal Iu.
firmary of Edinburgh, and In his great
work on Consumption" he makes the fol
| lowing statement:
"During this period / made upwards oi
1000 post-mortem examinations of persons
dying from various diseases, and was
constantly meeting with cases in which ]
found cavities in the lungs from consump
tion, which had evidently healed up OF
cicatrized years before the death of the
subject. Nature did not seem to have beer
successful in restoring the wasted lung
substance, but the cavities were dried up
the progress of the disease. arrested, and
| the subject lived for years. with diminished
lung power it is true, but otherwise in good
health"